Union rural minister Gopinath Munde, who died after a road accident in Delhi yesterday, has been cremated with full state honors at his native village in Mahrashtra's Beed district this afternoon. His body was brought to Latur, 485 kilometers from Mumbai. From there it was taken to the place of cremation.

Thousands of supporters had gathered to pay their last respect to late Munde. The
funeral pyre of Munde was lit by his elder daughter Pankaja
Munde-Palve who is also an MLA from Parli.

A chaotic situation also surfaced when
Police and Munde's supporters clashed. The late Union Ministers
daughter appealed to the supporters to stay calm.

Munde, 64, who made his entry into the
Union Cabinet for the first time last week, was on his way to the
airport when his Maruti Suzuki SX4 car was hit by a Tata Indica car
at Prithviraj Road-Tughlak Road intersection in the heart of the
capital.